Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bruce Nauman has been recognized since the early 1970s as one of the most innovative and provocative of America's contemporary artists. Nauman finds inspiration in the activities, speech, and materials of everyday life and works in the diverse mediums of sculpture, video, film, printmaking, performance, and installation. Dr Veit Görner, born in Munich in 1953, has been director of the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover since 2003. He lives in Hannover and Stuttgart.Görner, has organised extensive solo exhibitions - often for the first time in Germany - with the following internationally renowned artists, among others: Gary Hume, Cindy Sherman, Miquel Barceló, Fischli & Weiss, Anton Corbijn, Candida Höfer. Curator at the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Germany.